I'll update this every 3 months. Here are the next 3 themes we'll be reading! Have a suggestion for a book that fits in one these? Leave it below, and I'll add it to our suggestion shelf!
April 2015 - Middle Grade
Week 1: April 5th to April 11th
Week 2: April 12th to April 18th
Week 3: April 19th to April 25th
May 2015 - Science Fiction
Week 1: May 3rd to May 9th
Week 2: May 10th to May 16th
Week 3: May 17th to May 23rd
Week 4: May 24th to May 30th
June 2015 - Romance
Week 1: June 7th to June 13th
Week 2: June 14th to June 20th
Week 3: June 21st to June 27th
For sci-fi, I'd like to recommend I, Robot or Robot Dreams. Also Avengers AI volume one. Although I highly suggest More Than Meets the Eye Volume one, but everyone rolls their eyes when they hear it's a Transformers comics. (It's also some of the smartest writing I've read, bar none.)
http://booklikes.com/i-robot-isaac-asimov/book,409515
http://booklikes.com/robot-dreams-isaac-asimov/book,408378
http://booklikes.com/a-i-volume-1-human-after-all-sam-humphries-andre-lima-araujo-valerio-schiti/book,10800043
http://booklikes.com/transformers-more-than-meets-the-eye-volume-1-transformers-idw-james-robert/book,8616436
For the middle grade, there's Patterson's House of Robots, Robots Rule, and A Boy and His Bot.
http://booklikes.com/my-brother-the-robot-james-patterson/book,12040108 (I don't know why it's mislabelled there -_-)
http://booklikes.com/lots-and-lots-of-bots-c-j-richards-goro-fujita/book,11712190 (Also mislabelled and I'm not sure why!)
http://booklikes.com/a-boy-and-his-bot-daniel-h-wilson/book,6207402
For romance there's the Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson which has a romance between a human and a robo sapien.
http://booklikes.com/the-stone-gods-jeanette-winterson/book,1914885
I'm totally not trying too damn hard, though...
I have other romance suggestions. Like Saga volume one:
http://booklikes.com/saga-volume-1-brian-k-vaughan-fiona-staples/book,8208828
Prince Robot IV!
Although I hesitate to divert the discussion from robots, here are my suggestions:
MG: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co. book 1) or Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (although this one might be YA. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish).
SF: I totally want to read Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice.
Romance: I read so little romance these days, and nothing that is coming soon looks even remotely appealing to me, since I despise NA. I'm curious to see what is nominated though.
Clarification - is this a one book a week club or a one book a month club?
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One book a month :). I just post weekly discussion questions. Which reminds me, I need to put a breakdown up for Cinder.
OK, thanks! I sort of figured that, but wasn't sure. One book a week would be an extremely fast-moving book club!
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It sure would! Although every so often we do read novellas instead, and we'll read one a week :).
Don't worry. If no one diverted my attention from robots, it would be there all the time. That might get a little too robot heavy for anyone who isn't me :P
Some I've either read or looked at that might be good
April: Middle Grade
The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency # 1) - teenage Ada Byron (Lovelace) and Mary Shelley solving a crime together! It's incredible.
Science Fiction
Lock In by John Scalzi
Romance
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet or Manor of Secrets
Any other suggestions for Romance my friends? I'll open nominations today, so keep looking around for books you might want to read in June!
There's that whole arc where Vision marries the Scarlet Witch. Definitely not a HEA after all that crap leading up to Avengers Dissembled, however. Although at least one Avenger considers the marriage a high point.
I just want them to be done with the Scarlet Witch at this point...
Here are the new themes for the next three months!
July 2015 - Historical Fiction
August 2015 - Novella Month
September 2015 - Graphic Novels / Comics
Graphic novels: Loki: Agent of Asgard volume one?
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